Olympus (ship)

Olympus

Ship data flag  United Kingdom other ship names Ropax 2 Lübeck Link Finnrose Ship type Combined ferry Callsign 2AJK9 home port London Owner ROPAX 2 KS Shipyard A / B Oskarshamns Varv Launch January 22, 1980 Whereabouts 2017 demolition in Alang

Ship dimensions and crew length 192.59 m ( Lüa ) width 27.03 m Draft Max. 6.77 m measurement 33,163 GT / 17,996 NRZ

Machine system machine 2 × Cegielski-Sulzer 6RND 68M Diesel Machine performance 15,900 kW (21,618 hp) Top speed 19 kn (35 km / h)

Transport capacities Load capacity 10,600 t (originally) 18,541 t (after conversion) Running loading meters 3,058 m Vehicle capacity 226 trailers Permitted number of passengers 12 passengers in 12 cabins (originally) 240 passengers in 214 cabins (after conversion)

Others Classifications Det Norske Veritas Registration numbers IMO no. 7822859

The Olympus was a combined ferry .

history

Finnrose (1980–1990)

The ship was built on the Oskarshamns Varv in Oskarshamn , Sweden under the hull number 428 as Finnrose . The keel was laid on August 7, 1979, the launch on January 22, 1980. The completion of the ship, which was christened on June 24, took place on July 1, 1980. The ship was delivered to the Skärhamns Oljetransporter based in Skärhamn on July 27, 1980 .

The ship was sold several times in the first ten years. From the end of 1989 it was rebuilt in a shipyard in Gdynia , Poland . A bow visor was installed and the load capacity and passenger capacity increased. Plans to convert the then Finnrose into a cruise ferry were not realized.

Lübeck Link (1990-2007)

After the shipyard stay, the ship was sold to Nordö-Link in April 1990 , which used it as Lübeck Link on the Malmö - Travemünde route . After the takeover of Nordö-Link by Finnlines , the connection from Finnlines was continued.

Ropax 2 (2007-2011)

In April 2007 the ship was sold together with the sister ship , the Malmö Link , to Channel Ferries based in London . The ship operated on the Baltic Sea route until August 27 of that year , until it was taken over by the new Nordlink building. The ferry was then rebuilt again at Cammell, Laird & Company in Birkenhead and renamed Ropax 2 . The ship, which until then sailed under the Swedish flag with home port Malmö, now came under the flag of Great Britain. Home port became London.

Channel Ferries sold the ship to Norway in May 2008. The flag and home port remained unchanged.

Olympus (2011-2017)

The ship, which as from March 16, 2011 Olympus inverted, was of V.Ships Leisure in Monaco bereedert and various charterers mainly in the Mediterranean used. From June 2013 the ship was launched in Ababiya . On November 27, 2017, the ship was stranded in Alang for demolition .

Web links

Commons : Olympus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Info about the ship at Fakta om Fartyg (Swedish)
• Lübeck Link at Kommandobryggan (Swedish)

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} M / S FINNROSE , Facta om Fartyg. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
2. ↑ "Nomadic" OLYMPUS sold to breakers. December 12, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2017 .